We have color pictures, photographs, pics and articles on poppies, on the armistice of 11 November 1918 (the Great War treaty of World War 1 in Versailles) ending WW1, called Eerste Wereldoorlog in Flemish or Groote Oorlog. Also the beginning, the origins of the Great War. Pictures of America (AEF) in the Great War and a list of famous people. We show pictures of soldiers wounded or killed by toxic gas (musterd gas, chlorine gas) that was put in munition or ammunition shells. We also have Great War propaganda posters and postcards and censored, forbidden pictures of corpses, dead and mutilated soldiers, mud and rain and shell holes and trenches, many trenches and entranchments, executions.

There were Great War internment camps and we have Flanders Fields in Vlaanderen, Belgium. Soldiers were killed KIA and wounded or mutilated at the Battles of the Somme, at Verdun, Ypres, Zonnebeeke, Passchendaele, the Chemin des Dames and Marne. Telegrams and pictures did not pass the censor or died on the battlefield. Don't forget the photography censors. There was music. Horrible fighting and dying with the BEF in Ypres or Wipers or Ieper, also known as Ieperen, Yper and Yperen, photographed and filmed by war photographers, sometimes in full colour, color. Vipers salient and Vimy and Passchendaele play important roles. Passendale and Picardie (or Picardy) and the Flemish Westhoek. Great War poetry like 'The making of John McCrae's poem In Flanders Fields' on poppy and poppies and of course Sassoon.

This site has also articles on origins of the Great War and on the American AEF. Plus famous people, toxic gas gifgas mosterdgas musterd gas in the First World War, munitie, munition, obus granaat and shell trenches. Gas munition dump in the North Sea. There were "internerings kampen": in English internment camp, far away from the trenches (loopgraven), but there was also an electric wire on the border between Holland (the Netherlands) and occupied Belgium. The Great War was in Flanders Fields in Vlaanderen and on the battlefields of the Somme, Verdun, the Chemin des Dames and the Marne. The BEF in Ypres, called Wipers or Ieper or Ieperen or Yper or Yperen or Vipers in the salient. Vimy and Passchendaele also known as Passendale and battles in Picardie Picardy and the Westhoek. There was a poppy and poppies near the war memorial at the Menin Gate, the Meense Poort, an "oorlogsmonument" and a klaproos, drawings by Albert Hahn. Poems by McCrae, Kipling, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen and music from the First World War, aka Great War. Books by Erich Maria Remarque (also known as Remark or Kramer), Winston Churchill and Robert Graves. Article on Adolf Hitler and on Alexander Haig, Ernest Hemingway and Kathe Kollwitz. Tolkien is here and Barbara Tuchman who quotes Zimmermann telegram.

Craiglockhart had William Halse Rivers, Great War shell shock expert. No POW prisoner-of-war. Russia and Austria and Baghdad with Maude, a general, Kazim Karabekir and Pasha Prince Faisal. Saddam Hussein not in the Great War, but later in the Middle-East. In the Near-East is Turkey 1915, 1916 en 1917. Palestine in 1918 with Jericho all in the Australian Light Horse Brigade. Ottoman Empire crushed. Complete books. Romantic postcards with love girls and romance (loving) in the Great War postcard. Poems and poetry in Vlaanderen in Vlaams and German, Duitsland or Deutschland. Germany and Canada and Scotland and Ireland all in the Great War. So was England Engeland and Great Britain and Nederland niet. Frankrijk was there, France, Belgium Belgie and Australia with Aussies, aka Diggers in Duitsland Ierland and Amerika. Knokke en Houthulst have Great War munition dump and more dumps out in the North Sea. Kaiser Wilhelm II was responsible and his son Wilhelm crownprince. Emperor was in Doorn buried. Eli Siegel philospher of philosophy. Peace movement.

Children become orphans or kid soldier boys. They had weapons in the Great War invented like tank, flame thrower, hand grenades and the infamous gas shell. General Haig. Photographers made autochrome colour (color) or handcolored cq. handcoloured photographs on the Western Front. Chlumberg was a playwright. Barnes and Mary Riter Hamilton paintings. Great War Western Front and the Eastern Front both had a Christmas Truce. And Gallipoli? Pozieres made into music from the Great War, First World War, with wav's, midi files etc. William McBride was there and George Grosz. The border had an electric fence. Not in La Bassee or High Wood where tourism went from the neutral Netherlands. Holland had a flea market on the battlefield. Many casualties: dead, wounded, missing in action, just killed. Great War casualties were 10 million. Willem Vermandere Flemish singer and story teller. Arthur Stadler drawing explicit horror in the Great War like fear hanging suicide marshes etc. Complete books with map discussions forum. Great War guestbook and search page for studenten students scholars pupils, young child children boy soldiers. Music with mp3 and midi download.

About Ruggenberg and his books for children / Over Ruggenberg en zijn kinderboeken:

Rob Ruggenberg, author of the Heritage of the Great War website, is also a writer of childrens books, especially historical youth novels, e.g. Het verraad van Waterdunen (The Waterdunes Treason), set during the 80 Years War between the Netherlands and Spain, and Slavenhaler (Slaver) on the subject of Dutch slave trade in the 17th century.